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sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:43 pm

It's been pretty flat here at the cafe.

SO whatcha all doing?

Carl's been tidying up the garden and I'm up to my ears in kittens and hospice cases.

Smudge and Mileena have passed. Moses is a chronic renal failure case. Pinocchio has some sort of URI and needs to get over it and get fatttened up befor ewe can put him up for adoption.

Ginger is waiting to have her kittens.

The big blackie kittens (7 weeks) are over bottle feeding and I'm waiting for them to 1) get litter box trained and 2) reach 2 pounds, when they can be speutered and put up for adoption.

Little baby Emma (6 weeks) seems to have a case of irritable bowel and needs lots of attention, fluids, special diet, many baths. I'm about to demand either prednisone or mtronidazole for Emma.

THen there are the two little tuxes (3 weeks) hungry and on the verge of weaning.

Finally, there are all the other fuzzers, the house, the yard.......

Sartorily I'm in shorts and light ts or tanks. Life seems to be all about dirty chores right now and I just don't feel like doing dirty chores in a skirt.

I was brought up thinking that skirts were "dress up". If any of you guys feel comfortable about down in the dirt or cat poo in a skirt, enlighten me!

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:59 pm

My wife Ann came home from long term hospital care in mid March and I took her to Gran Canaria for a week's holiday. It was hard work as the apartment was two miles inland so it was a four mile wheelchair push to get her to the sea front and back. Still it was good exercise and will be good experience if at some time in the future I ever start a family and have to push kids in a pram. I'd love to have more kids, though considering I'm in my late fifties my next partner would need to be a lot younger if this is to happen; am I mad or what? Since I quit the booze almost four years ago I just feel twenty years younger. I have an adult daughter from a short lived previous relationship whom I have not seen for the past four years, but Ann and I never had any children. My first duty right now has to be to give Ann the best quality of life in the time that remains for her and I am planning a few weekends and short holidays closer to home which will not involve too much travel. Today was my first day in a new job, just a part-time consultancy. I arrived at work wearing my black wool kilt. One person remarked that I looked very smart, otherwise nobody commented on the kilt. I have not been doing any hands on flying since February but will be taking a check ride early next month with an instructor to get back into currency.
You seem to have your work cut out for you with those cats, Sapphire.
What's everybody else been up to?

Website · Post by **crfriend** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:56 pm

cessna152towser wrote: I'd love to have more kids, though considering I'm in my late fifties my next partner would need to be a lot younger if this is to happen; am I mad or what?

Methinks I'll withold comment.

Today was my first day in a new job, just a part-time consultancy. I arrived at work wearing my black wool kilt. One person remarked that I looked very smart, otherwise nobody commented on the kilt.

Congratulations on the new gig! Let me guess... It has something to do with aviation?

What's everybody else been up to?

"Work, eat, sleep, repeat" pretty well sums it up.

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:10 pm

Let me guess... It has something to do with aviation?

No its in the legal profession - aviation is just an expensive hobby which takes up a lot of my time and money, both as an air museum volunteer and as a private pilot.

JRMILLER · Post by **JRMILLER** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:07 pm

Here in central oh, been enjoying Spring. It was a long, yucky winter and I am glad it's over!

Will be uncovering my sailboat tomorrow to get it ready to launch in the formerly frozen wastes of Lake Erie. I didn't get to sail much last summer, spent the summer in florida, this summer, however, I am home so I plan to make up for last summer!

ziggy_encaoua · Post by **ziggy_encaoua** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:56 am

sapphire wrote:It's been pretty flat here at the cafe.

SO whatcha all doing?

That's what happens when you over moderate a forum

I can't tell you what I've been doing for the same reason

Sasquatch · Post by **Sasquatch** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:54 am

sapphire wrote:It's been pretty flat here at the cafe.

SO whatcha all doing?

This is my busiest time of year at work, and then there's the farm...

Finally, there are all the other fuzzers, the house, the yard.......

Don't take this wrong, Saph, but...you aren't turning into one of those crazy cat ladies are you?

Just want to make sure your acts of feline nurture aren't a prelude to you wandering away from home in your night gown or driving across three states until you run out of gas. (This inquiry coming from someone who, at the moment, hears Jethro Tull's Cross-Eyed Mary in his head!

)

Sartorily I'm in shorts and light ts or tanks. Life seems to be all about dirty chores right now and I just don't feel like doing dirty chores in a skirt.

I was out at the farm at 7 a.m. harvesting a couple cases of red and green leaf lettuce in my camo skirt. If I hadn't been wearing a white T shirt I might have lost myself!

Sasq[/quote]

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:18 pm

Hi Sasq,
I turned into a crazy cat lady many years ago.

For a long time I bred and showed Birman cats and travelled across many states showing them.

It became too expensive to continue so now I volunteer, bottle feeding the orphans and providing hospice for cats at the end of their lives.

Just my way of performing community service. The babies are usually from feral mothers, so when I raise them, they are well soocialized and can go into loving homes.

While it is Spring for most folks, it is also kitten season and the shelters really need help.

I never had or wanted kids, but have always, since toddlerhood, loived animals.

knickerless · Post by **knickerless** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:32 pm

If you are the crazy cat lady - then I must be the crazy cat man.

I have seven and would have more any day.

Cats are fab.

No need to check the weather on TV - just look what the cats are up to - if they are all out and you don't see them for hours on end - then it is a nice day and will continue nice. If they all suddenly come in - then it is about to rain.

Nick

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:22 am

Thanks Nick.

My cats stay indoors and never go out.

We have a problem here with an overpopulation of free roaming cats. So we trap, neuter and vaccinate them. If they are friendly we put them up for adoption. If they are wild, we return them to their colonies. We take the babies, raise them, socialize them and find them homes.

Post by **Uncle Al** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:22 am

Gardening--planted new annuals, plus staked my Gladolias.
Planted a Hydranga, and trimmed the golden eunonymous
in the back yard. I also have to replace the trellis/garden arch
that the Honeysuckle is growing on. The original arch is to light
weight and can't hold the plant up. It's collapsing-

After I
change out the arch, then I have to trim the holly shrubs in the front.
Just had the yard mowed, so will be spreading 'Over-n-Out' fire ant
killer all over my yard. This stuff works, only apply it once a year.
If anyone is not familiar with fire ants--count your blessings!
If you get bit/stung by one, it festers up and itches like crazy!
I help keep Benadryl in business :laff:

So far, all done in my brown or blue A-Line, below the knee,
stretch denim skirts. Don't want to get my kilts dirty.

Also acquiring parts for my organ rebuild, and working on
the current rebuild for our ATOS chapter traveling/educational
organ program. We will be taking it into schools to introduce
4th-5th graders to the Theatre Organ.

The tired Uncle Al,
Duncanville, TX

Got to baby-sit our grandson on Wednesday. He wants to climb on
the organ bench and play 'his' music. I just hope he wants to
continue with music as he gets older. FYI-if anyone plays an
instrument or sings, their ability to learn a foreign language
is much better and easier than someone who does not play/sing.

AMM · Post by **AMM** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:18 pm

I've been busy, myself.

Work at work has been busy -- my company has been doing a merger, which I guess means that the old incompetent upper management will be replaced by new incompetent upper management.

At home, my ex-wife and I have been trying to get my older son to think about college (he'd start in fall, 2009), but it involves that 6-letter "f" word that burns his tender ears and makes him so "tense". Anyway, I made two 300-mile (round) trips this week to different colleges. He didn't react to either, but I have to admit, the dog-and-pony shows that the colleges set up start to all look and sound alike. I've tried to get the colleges to find some students with similar interests to my son's so that he can get more of a feeling that he'd find other people like him there, but apparently letting potential applicants talk with students that the admissions dept. hasn't screened and trained is a big unwritten no-no. I've just gotten the burocratic run-around.

In my free time, I've been dancing and making skirts. I'm going to NEFFA today -- this was the only weekend this month that my ex could take the kids, so I'm off. The big down side is that it's yet another 300+ mile trip this week. Did I ever mention that I hate driving?

I've been sewing some. I made a couple of batiste petticoats and a 30" skirt since I last posted pictures, and I'm working on another skirt: red satin. I don't know why, I just got an uncontrollable urge to have a satin skirt, and one of our local fabric shops is selling washable satin in a few colors (60" wide, too!) It won't be ready for NEFFA, but I hope to wear it to a contra dance next weekend. Not sure if I should post any of the pictures. I thought of asking for people's thoughts about petticoats and petticoat design, but I have the impression that I"m the only one who would be interested.

There's skirt-related stuff and skirt-tangential stuff going on in my life and in my mind, but it's not a lot different from what I've posted about in the past, and I haven't had a lot of urge to repeat myself. Especially not the stuff that went over like a lead balloon the last time around. Getting a little tired of the single life, but not sure how to change it....

Well, time to get the kids to finish up their (overdue!) homework, to pack for NEFFA, and maybe clean the apartment (something I haven't been doing enough of lately....)

knickerless · Post by **knickerless** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:24 pm

Always remember dogs have owners, cats have staff.

I am lucky i live on the edge of town and my cats come and go as they like. All fields behind where I live and the cats tollerate and share the fields with foxes and badgers. My cats are constantly bringing home various prey - mice, rats, birds even a squirrell once. A work colleague has a cat that brings home live fish. He has now bought a tank for the fish. He has no idea where the cat gets them from.

nick

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:03 pm

No badgers here, but we do have foxes, coyotes, bobcats, fisher cats (a species of weasel), hawks and eagles.

The grey wolf has returned to the western part of the state and there have been infrequent mountain lion sightings in the western part of the state as well.

knickerless · Post by **knickerless** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:55 pm

My cats come in and out through a cat flap.

Incidently does anyone else know (without looking it up) who invented the cat flap and why?

Nick

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